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Definition: Naked |
NakedAdjective1. Completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waste up"; "a nude model". 2. Having no protecting or concealing cover; "naked to mine enemies"- Shakespeare. 3. (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument; "visible to the naked eye"; "clearly audible to the unaided ear". 4. Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "naked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Naked This word denotes (1) absolute nakedness (Gen. 2:25; Job 1:21; Eccl. 5:15; Micah 1:8; Amos 2:16); (2) being poorly clad (Isa. 58:7; James 2:15). It denotes also (3) the state of one who has laid aside his loose outer garment (Lat. nudus), and appears clothed only in a long tunic or under robe worn next the skin (1 Sam. 19:24; Isa. 47:3; comp. Mark 14:52; John 21:7). It is used figuratively, meaning "being discovered" or "made manifest" (Job 26:6; Heb. 4:13). In Ex. 32:25 the expression "the people were naked" (A.V.) is more correctly rendered in the Revised Version "the people were broken loose", i.e., had fallen into a state of lawlessness and insubordination. In 2 Chr. 28:19 the words "he made Judah naked" (A.V.), but Revised Version "he had dealt wantonly in Judah," mean "he had permitted Judah to break loose from all the restraints of religion." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are naked, foretells scandal and unwise engagements. To see others naked, foretells that you will be tempted by designing persons to leave the path of duty. Sickness will be no small factor against your success. To dream that you suddenly discover your nudity, and are trying to conceal it, denotes that you have sought illicit pleasure contrary to your noblest instincts and are desirous of abandoning those desires. For a young woman to dream that she admires her nudity, foretells that she will win, but not hold honest men's regard. She will win fortune by her charms. If she thinks herself ill-formed, her reputation will be sullied by scandal. If she dreams of swimming in clear water naked, she will enjoy illicit loves, but nature will revenge herself by sickness, or loss of charms. If she sees naked men swimming in clear water, she will have many admirers. If the water is muddy, a jealous admirer will cause ill-natured gossip about her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Finance | A liability exists in the long or short term, which is not covered by a corresponding position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:bare; blank hole. (references) |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Unknown. Definition: A burger with no condiments or veggies on it. Context: What you write on the ticket to tell the cook not to put anything on the burger. Social Source: Red Mill employees, Seattle WA. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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In general relativity, a naked singularity is a gravitational singularity without an event horizon. The singularities inside black holes are always surrounded by an area which does not allow light to escape, and can therefore not be directly observed. A naked singularity, by contrast, is a point in space where the density is infinite and which is observable from the outside.The theoretical existence of naked singularities is important because their existence would mean that it would be possible to observe the collapse of an object to infinite density.
Computer simulations of the collapse of a disk of dust have indicated that these objects can exist and thus the Cosmic censorship principle (stating that singularities are always hidden) does not hold. Stephen Hawking lost a bet about this question.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Naked singularity."
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Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly fewer clothes than expected by the conventions of a particular culture and situation, and in particular exposing the bare skin of intimate parts. The term topless is sometimes used to describe the lack of clothing covering the breasts.
The nude is also a genre of representational art, especially painting and sculpture, that depicts people without clothes on.
Overview
Once the universal state of mankind prior to the invention of clothing, nudity is now rare in the presence of others.
Acceptance of nudity and required levels of clothing vary greatly with time and culture; it also depends on whether other people are present, and if so, who. Some nudity is unavoidable when bathing or going to the toilet, but these can and often are done in private.
Nudity in front of a sexual partner is widely accepted, but even here there may be restrictions. For example, only at the time and place of sex, or with subdued lighting, or covered by a sheet or blanket.
Nudity in front of strangers of the same sex is often more accepted than in front of those of the opposite sex, for example in open showers, common changing rooms, etc. Urinals may have partitions between them to avoid the partial nudity of men to be visible by other men. How common they are varies with the country.
On one extreme some people view nudity as sinful or otherwise wrong except in such unavoidable cases, while other people, such as nudists assert that nudity is the natural state that should ideally be always acceptable in public.
Cultural and Religious Views of Nudity
In some hunter-gatherer cultures in warm climates, near-complete nudity was (at least until the introduction of European culture) standard practice for both men and women. However, this was not always the case. For example, native Americans were generally quite prim where nudity was concerned. A notable exception were the Chumash Indians of southern California who were nudists: men were usually naked, women were often topless.
At the most extreme end of the spectrum, one finds some strict interpretations of Islam that require women to cover their entire bodies, including the face (see burka), on threat of severe punishment.
In the West, standards of what constitutes indecent exposure vary widely. In the early 20th century, exposure of male nipples was considered indecent at some beaches. In general and across cultures, most restrictions are found for exposure of those parts of the human body that put in evidence sexual arousal or sexual dimorphism between male and female adults. Therefore, sex organs and women's breasts are often covered.
In the United States of America, exposure of female nipples is still not usually allowed in public; public breastfeeding, since the exposure it involves is functional, may be looked upon more mildly, but still it is sometimes considered problematic. However, courts in some North American jurisdictions—including Ontario and New York State—have legalized the exposure of women's nipples on equal protection grounds (see United States Constitution/Amendment Fourteen). The movement of "topfree equality" promotes equal rights for woman to have no clothing above the waist; the term "topfree" rather than "topless" is used to avoid the sexual connotation of the latter.
In some Northern European countries (for instance Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands), saunas and Spa towns with mixed-sex nudity exist, while in other countries these places always strictly separate the sexes.
Since the mid-20th century designated topless, clothing-optional and strictly-nude beaches have come into vogue. Topless sunbathing is considered acceptable on the beaches of France, Spain and most of the rest of Europe (and even in many outdoor swimming pools); however, exposure of the genitals is restricted to nudist areas.
It is common in many cultures for children's nudity to not be seen as being particularly disturbing until they reach puberty, or more restrictively, until a younger age. Social sensibilities towards the nudity of children have become far more restrictive in many developed countries over the past two decades, while conversely the nudity of adults has become far more acceptable in many of the same places. Newfound social-awareness about paedophilia and child pornography has instilled in cultures concerns over dangers and negativity with child-nudity; the nude form of children has come to hold negative sexual-connotations, while previously prepubescents would often be viewed as being innately asexual. For example, in New Zealand in previous decades the appearance of photographs of naked minors in newspapers and magazines was socially acceptable, whereas the publication of the same depictions nowadays would almost invariably invoke horror and revulsion amongst the readership.
Nudity is closely associated with sexuality in most cultures where some level of body modesty is expected (in that, nudity is considered to be immodest). This is evidenced by the existence of striptease in these cultures. As an effect of Catholic cultural heritage, in Latin cultures the common sense of modesty does not generally admit genital nudity, but the definition of what is lewd has changed and women's breasts are now commonly exposed or depicted without scandal.
According to the Book of Genesis of the Bible, the first two humans ever, Adam and Eve, were nude at first, but after a transgression against God's rules (the original sin), no longer felt comfortable like that and made aprons of fig leaves.
In the past, the Roman Catholic Church organized the so-called fig-leaf campaign to cover nudity in art, starting from the works of Renaissance artist Michelangelo (see Michelangelo Buonarroti for details). Islam prohibits any illustrations of human beings so the question does not arise there. (There have been exceptions to this rule in some Islamic societies, but apparently none involving nudity.)
Some people enjoy public nudity in a non-sexual context. This movement is known as nudism, or naturism, and often practiced in reserved places that used to be called nudist camps but are now properly referred to as nudist (or naturist) resorts, beaches or clubs.
Exploitation of Nudity
Streaking is running naked through a non-nudist public place, usually for fun.
Nudity has sometimes been used to attract more attention to a public protest, a tactic used by the Doukhobors in the early 20th century, and later (particularly from the 1960s onwards) used more widely. Modern slogans include "Disrobe for disarmament", "Nudes, not nukes!", "Naked For Peace", "Dare 2 Bare 4 Freedom + Peace", "I'd rather go naked than wear fur!" and "I Got Rid Of My Bush! Read My Lips - No To War!"
Sometimes the phrase "extreme nudity" is used, implying that the absence of clothing is very special (either good or bad).
Nudity in the Media
Images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw additional attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide, in other cases it is rather due to the relative rareness of the images. Nudity tends to be carefully dosed to avoid that the advertising company is associated with being indecent or unrefined. There are also limits on what advertising media such as magazines allow. This has given light to the saying "sex sells."
The portrayal of nudity in motion pictures has long been controversial. Because several early films of the silent era featured rampant full nudity and acts bordering on pornography, scenes of nudity were forbidden in mainstream American films by the Hayes Code from the 1930s until the 1960s when the MPAA film rating system was instituted. Since then, many films have featured various levels of nudity, however full frontal nudity (especially featuring male anatomy) is still rare in American cinema. Full nudity has gained much wider acceptance in European cinema, where the audience perceive non-pornographic nudity as comparably less controversial than excessively depictured violence. Nudity in a sexual, but non-pornographic, context has however in many European countries remained on the fringe of what is socially aceptable for public shows, although the limits have been pushed during the 20th century.
Noteworthy films which have featured nudity, and thus gained some controversy at the time of release, include:
Broadcast television and most "basic cable" outlets in the United States have been more reluctant to display nudity in most cases, the exception being PBS. A few series in the 1990s, including NYPD Blue have occasionally used partial nudity. Nude scenes from theatrically released films are usually edited out, obscured in some fashion (such as, digital imagery may be used to clothe nude actors) for television viewing. Several premium cable services such as HBO and Showtime gained popularity for, among other things, presenting uncut films. In addition, they have produced series that do not shy away from nude scenes, including Sex and the City and The Sopranos.
- Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli 1968)
- Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell 1969)
- Last Tango in Paris (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci 1972)
- Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch 1986)
- Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven 1992)
- The Piano (dir. Jane Campion 1993)
Nudity occasionally presents itself in other forms of media as well, often with attending controversy. Album cover art featuring nude photographs by performers such as Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Blind Faith, and Jane's Addiction have stirred controversy over the years.
For images of nudity (not necessarily pornography) the most extreme form is "full-frontal" nudity, referring to the fact that the front side of the crotch is exposed. Frequently images of nude people do not go that far and photos are deliberately composed, and films edited, such that in particular no genitalia are seen, as if the camera failed to see them by chance.
Nudity in art, also publicly displayed, is rather common and more accepted than public nudity of real people. For example, a statue or painting representing a nude person may be displayed in public places where actual nudity is not allowed. However, there is also much art depicting a nude person with some piece of cloth seemingly by chance covering the genitals.
On the Internet, especially on websites featuring images well known people, the terms "Nude" or Nudity" has often been used (some would say misused) to signify indecent exposure; for example a photo of an otherwise fully clothed woman with a nipple exposed. See also: Nude celebrities on the Internet.
See also: Indecent exposure, Mooning, Nudism, Nudity in Sports, Original sin, Barenaked Ladies band
External Links
- Streaking information: http://www.streaking.co.uk/erica.htm
- Naked for Peace
- Spencer Tunick: art photos of public mass nudity
The term naked is also used for having no fur, like The Naked Ape, naked mole rat, and figuratively, like naked truth. In Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books the animals frequently refer to Mowgli as being naked, meaning furless, but this draws the reader's attention to the fact that he is also naked in the other sense.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nudity."
Synonyms: NakedSynonyms: au naturel(p) (adj), bare (adj), defenseless (adj), nude (adj), raw (adj), unaided (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
Divestment | In a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless. |
Adjective: divested; Verb: bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded; exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless. | |
Eventuality | Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent. |
Manifestation | Explicit, overt, patent, express; ostensible; open, open as day; naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric. |
Truth | Plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas; the very thing; not an -illusion; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth; the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing. |
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Screenplays | I want to look good naked! (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Bridget works in a publishing house and she used to play around naked in my paddling pool (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) I fell off a building, I got beat on, and ran through Hong Kong butt naked. I'm outta here (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) Well, maybe you're naked and I'm the only guest, but it's still elegant (What Women Want; writing credit: Josh Goldsmith; Cathy Yuspa) Since you like chicks, right, do you just look at yourself naked in the mirror all the time (Chasing Amy; writing credit: Kevin Smith.) | |
Lyrics | I recommend walking around naked in your living room (You Learn; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Oh I like you naked (Tell Me; performing artist: Billie Myers) I'd love to see you naked baby, (Too Funky; performing artist: George Michael) Where you're walking naked down the street (Barenaked; performing artist: Jennifer Love Hewit) Bet I'll have you naked by the end of this song (Rock Your Body; performing artist: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) | |
Clever | No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Naked Ape (1973) Naked Encounters (1971) The Naked Zoo (1971) What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970) Naked Angels (1969) | |
Song Titles | 100 Naked Kangaroos in Blue Canoes (performing artist: Timothy Leary) | |
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 | Plate 69. The Gulf Toadfish or "Sapo." Batrachus pardus, Goode & Bean. The Naked Star-gazer. Astrocopus anoplus (C.V.), Brevoort. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Naked broomrapeOrobanche unifloraWildflower. Credit: Roger Rosentreter. |
 | Naked Eriogonum (Eriogonum nudum) along Highway 227 a few miles east of Trail, OR. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |  | Closeup shot of Naked Broomrape wildflowers (Orobanche Uniflora). Credit: John Craig. |
 | Medium shot of Naked Broomrape wildflowers (Orobanche Uniflora). Credit: John Craig. |  | Naked lady and man with side whiskers in a garden. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ci-devant occupations-or-Madame Taliah and the Empress Josephine dancing naked before Barrass in the winter of 1797.-A fact! / Js Gillray dest & fect. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bangkok - group of boys, one naked. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Naked Maori boys bathing. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two naked women, one holding cigarette, the other surrounded by flowers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Mobile cought naked 1" by Domagoj T. Commentary: "Mobile on action." | "Ghost" by Maurizio Commentary: "Blu filtered naked body." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward Gibbon | Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. |
Horace Walpole | Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. |
Sir P. Sidney | Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. |
Thomas Fuller | Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. |
Virgil | Naked in death upon an unknown shore. |
William Blake | Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. |
| My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. | |
William C. Bryant | The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. |
William Shakespeare | Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At night, the lovely naked youth descended from the cross, and became the rapture of the cell |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He pushed open the latchless door of the porch and passed through the naked hallway into the kitchen |
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | Actually, I'd give up writing if I could see a naked girl while I was eating ice cream |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Two men dressed in jeans and sweaty blue shirts came through the willows and looked toward the naked men. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | So, we are told, the New Hollander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes |
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Health | They range in size from those plainly visible to the naked eye to those several hundredths-of-an-inch long and visible only under a microscope. (references) | |
Because the genital herpes sores may not be visible to the naked eye, a doctor or other health care worker may have to do several laboratory tests to try to prove that any other symptoms are caused by the herpes virus. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Confiscated works included poetry by Lebanese poet Joseph Harb, two novels and an autobiography by Egyptian feminist Nawal al-Sa'adawi, "Crazy Stories," by Egyptian author Yehia Ibrahim, three works ("The Tent," "The Naked Bread," and "al-Shutar") by Moroccan author Mohammed Shukri, "The Merciful and the Devil," by Syrian author Firas al-Sawah, "Politics between the Permitted and the Forbidden," by Saudi Arabian author Turki Hamad, two works ("Fear of Modernism" and "Are you Shielded from the Harem?") by Moroccan feminist Fatma al-Mernissi, and "A Banquet for Seaweed," by Syrian author Haidar Haidar. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | He also was forced to strip naked and sit very close to a fire. (references) |
Mozambique | In 2000 police forced a man to march naked through a town from his home to the local jail. (references) | |
Women | India | The Committee notes that inability to prove those important events by documentation prevents effective implementation of laws that protect girls from sexual exploitation and trafficking, child labor and forced or early marriage." Dalit ("untouchable" caste) women have been stripped naked by mobs, and paraded around in public to humiliate Dalits who offend other castes. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch. |
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| "Naked" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Naked" is used about 2,047 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2,047 | 4,234 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "naked": a naked debenture ♦ go naked ♦ half naked ♦ mother naked ♦ naked ape ♦ naked as a jaybird ♦ naked as the day one was born ♦ naked as the day you were born ♦ naked bed ♦ naked body ♦ naked but unashamed ♦ naked eye ♦ naked fact ♦ naked facts ♦ naked flooring ♦ naked lady ♦ naked mole rat ♦ naked mollusk ♦ naked option ♦ naked option writing ♦ naked put ♦ naked reality ♦ naked seed ♦ naked sword ♦ naked truth ♦ naked walls ♦ naked wood ♦ stark naked ♦ strip naked ♦ the naked truth ♦ visible to the naked eye ♦ with a naked eye ♦ with the naked eye ♦ with the naked heart. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "naked": naked-eye, Naked-eyed medusa, naked-eyed medusae, naked-heeler, naked-looking, naked-on-the-bed, naked-root, naked-rooted, naked-seeming. | |
Ending with "naked": half-naked, near-naked, semi-naked, stark-naked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
naked | 19,514 | naked guy | 1,068 |
naked woman | 12,932 | naked lesbian | 903 |
naked man | 6,992 | picture of naked woman | 858 |
naked news | 6,227 | naked cheerleader | 828 |
celebrity naked | 5,286 | naked chick | 807 |
britney spears naked | 4,049 | carmen electra naked | 803 |
naked teen | 3,500 | naked black woman | 766 |
naked picture | 2,836 | britney naked | 705 |
naked nurse | 2,184 | naked beach | 693 |
naked model | 2,056 | trish stratus naked | 670 |
naked celebs.com | 2,044 | naked olsen twin | 654 |
free naked picture | 1,737 | naked photo | 624 |
naked wife | 1,384 | naked fat woman | 617 |
naked babe | 1,378 | free picture of naked woman | 613 |
naked lady | 1,349 | demi moore naked | 613 |
christina aguilera naked | 1,184 | naked news com | 611 |
gay naked man | 1,154 | divas naked wwe | 573 |
jennifer lopez naked | 1,121 | naked man picture | 553 |
free naked woman | 1,102 | naked in public | 552 |
naked people | 1,096 | naked blonde | 551 |
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| Language | Translations for "naked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lakuriq (bare, in the state of nature, mother naked, nude, sky-clad, stark naked, uncovered), i zhveshur (bald, bare, bleak, defoliate, dry, leafless, nude, treeless, unclad, undressed), i hapur (ajar, blunt, champaign, direct, exposed, forthright, Frank, free, heart-to-heart, honest, hospitable, low, open, open-hearted, overground, overt, pervious, plain, public, straightforward, unclosed, uncovered), i dukshëm (apparent, appreciable, conspicuous, discernible, distinct, evidence, evident, in evidence, manifest, marked, memorable, mere, notable, noticeable, observable, obvious, outward, overt, palpable, patent, perceptible, plain, pointed, prominent, rank, salient, self-explanatory, sensible, sheer, simple, speaking, substantial, telling, thorough-paced, transparent, unconcealed, unqualified, visible), gollomesh (bald, bare, nude), e pambuluar. (various references) | |
Arabic | مكشوف (bared, cleavage, exposed, nude, open, roofless, uncovered, unguarded), معرى (denudative), مجرد (absolute, abstract, bare, just, mere, merely), حاسر, عار (bare, black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, nude, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, taint, unclad, uncovered), أعزل (armless, bare, barehanded, unarmed, weaponless). (various references) | |
Basque | korapilo (nude). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гол (bald, bare, callow, goal, harsh, nude, raw, unfledged, ungloved), невъоръжен (armless, unarmed, weaponless), необлечен (unclad, undressed), непокрит (bare, exposed, unclad), беззащитен (defenceless, unarmed, unprotected). (various references) | |
Catalan | nu (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Chinese | 臝 , 赤裸裸 (bare), 赤裸, 赤 (bare, red, scarlet), 裸 . (various references) | |
Czech | nahý (bare, drawn, in the nude, nude, undressed), prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, frugal, homely, plain, rustic, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unworldly, vulgar), holý (bald, bare, bleak, hard, stark, undiluted, utter), bezbranný (defenceless, defenseless, helpless, vulnerable). (various references) | |
Danish | nøgen (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Dutch | onopgesmukt (bare, nude), onbedekt (bare, nude), naakt (bare, nude), bloot (bare, mere, nude, sole, solitary). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nuda (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Faeroese | nakin (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Farsi | لخت (Bare, Lax, Nude, Picked, Stodgy), عادی (Common, Customary, Habitual, Normal, Ordinary, Ornery, Regular, Rife, Uncritical, Usual), عریان (Bald, Bare, Nude, Unaadorned), برهنه (Bald, Nude, Untented). (various references) | |
Finnish | alaston (bare, nude, uncovered, undressed). (various references) | |
French | nu (United Nations, United Nations Organization), dénudé. (various references) | |
Frisian | neaken (bare, nude), bleat (bare, nude). (various references) | |
German | nackt (bare, blunt, buff, callow, nakedly, nude, nudely, plain, raw, stark), kahl (bald, baldly, bare, barren, bleak, featherless, leafless, shaved, shorn, stark), bloß (alone, bare, exclusively, just, mere, merely, nude, only, pure, purely, sheer, simply, sole, solely, solitary, very). (various references) | |
Greek | γυμνόσ (bare, bleak, nude, stripped, unclad), γυμνός (bare, bleak, stark), ξεβράκωτοσ (sans culot, sansculotte), τσίτσιδος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעורטל, עירום (bare, buff, in the nude, nakedness, nudity, unclad), ערום (bare, nude, stripped), ערטילאי (abstract, nude), חשוף (bare, bareness, exposed, exposure, laying bare, opening, stripped, uncovered). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meztelen (bare, have nothing on, nude, scuddy, skinless, unclad), csupasz (bald, bare, nude, pure, smooth). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tunabusana (without clothing), telanjang (bare, nude, undress), bugil. (various references) | |
Italian | nudo (bare, nude, plain, stripped). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 裸身 , 裸 (bare, nude), ヌ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "nu", established reputation, nail enamel, nail file, nail polish, name, nameplate, name-server, name-space, name-value, naming, native, native speaker, nature trail, navel, navel orange, navy, navy look, Neanderthal, neo, neoclassicism, neocolonialism, neodymium, neoidealism, neoimpressionism, neoliberal, neologism, neologist, neology, neon, neon lamp, neon sign, Neo-Nazi, neophilia, neopolis, neorealism, neoromanticism, neosugar, style of motorcycle having the engine exposed and visible). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ネイキッド , らしん (compass needle), はだか (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Korean | 적나라한. (various references) | |
Lombard | biòtt (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Manx | roosteenagh (nudist), rooisht (clean out, exposed, nude, stripped, unclothed), lhome-rooisht (stark naked), lhome (arid, bald, bare, fleshless, leafless, meagre, neat, nude, scraggy, severe, spare), glen-lhome. (various references) | |
Occitan | nus (nude), parat (nude). (various references) | |
Papiamen | sunú (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akednay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nu (bare, nude, nudity, sky-clad, unclad), despido (bare, nude, unclad, unclothed, undressed). (various references) | |
Romanian | nud (dry, nude, stripped, unclothed), nemobilat, neizolat (bare), neapãrat (absolute, absolutely, certainly, needs, open, perforce), neacoperit (bare, exposed, open, uncovered, unprotected), neînarmat (armless, unarmed), golaş (barren, callow, featherless, fledgeless, hairless, squab), desfrunzit (leafless), despuiat (bare, nude), dezbrãcat (deshabille, nakedly, stripped, undressed), dezbråca (bare, nude), dezgoli (bare, denude, divest, Harry, nude, rip, strip, uncover), dezgolit (denuded), deschis (above board, artless, avowedly, bald, baldly, barefaced, barely, blunt, broad, direct, downright, flatly, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, guileless, light, open, openly, outright, outspoken, overt, overtly, pale, patent, plainly, raw, round, roundly, sincere, Square, straight, straightforward, unfeigned, unreserved), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), singur (a, alone, by, by oneself, herself, himself, isolated, itself, lone, lonely, lonesome, mateless, only, single, sole, solely, solitary, solo, yourself, yourselves), liber (at a loose end, at large, at leisure, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, leisured, loose, loosely, odd, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unengaged, unhampered, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void), fãrã apãrare (defenceless, fenceless, nakedly). (various references) | |
Russian | обнаженный (bare, drawn, exposed, nude). (various references) | |
Scottish | nochd (bare, disclose, display, exposed, reveal, to-night), lomnochd (uncovered), foidhearach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nag (bare, nude, nude: in the nude, unclothed, undressed), go (bare, nude, outright, starknaked, stitch, unclothed, undressed). (various references) | |
Spanish | desnudo (bald, bare, in the nude, nude, nudity, unclad, undress). (various references) | |
Sranan | soso-skin (bare, nude), sososkin (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Swedish | naken (bare, denuded, in the nude, nude, stark, starkers, unclothed), bar (bar, bare, bear, cafeteria, carried, carry, cocktail lounge, nude, saloon, snack bar, taproom, wear, wore), blottad. (various references) | |
Tagalog | hubád (bare, nude). (various references) | |
Thai | เรียบง่าย (homely, rustic), เปลือยกาย (nude), โล่ง (bald), ซึ่งไม่มีการป้องกัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | yalın (bald, bare, nominative, plain, severe, simple, simplex, simplificative, unvarnished, vivid), salt (absolute, pure, unvarnished, very), çíplak (bare, nude), çıplak (bare, bleak, innocent of clothes, nude, unaided, unclad, uncovered, undressed, unvarnished). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яalanaз. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | голослівний, голий (bald, bare, bleak, callow, desert, nude, stark), оголений (bald, bare, doddered, exposed, glabrous, nude), незахищений (defenceless, defenseless, exposed, fenceless, obvious, open, outdoor, out-of-door, unclosed, undefended, unguarded, unprotected, wide open), неприхований (bald, bald-faced, barefaced, nude), безволосий (hairless), позбавлений чогось (bare of). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trần truồng (bare, nude, sky-clad, unclothed), trần (bare, nude), trơ trụi, rõ ràng không thêm bớt không căn cứ, phô bày ra, loã lồ trụi, khoả thân, không giấu giếm (undissembled, undissembling, unhidden), hiển nhiên (apodeictic, apodictic, apodictical, apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, blatant, evident, flagrant, glaring, glaringly, glary, incontrovertible, manifest, notorious, obvious, patent, patently, self-apparent, self-evident, tactile, tangible, visibly, well-marked), cây cối (vegetation). (various references) | |
Welsh | noeth (bare, bleak, exposed, raw). (various references) | |
Yucatec | xma' nook' (bare, nude). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | gymnos. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | nacod. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 14, Verse 52 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de katalipwn thn sindona gumnoV efugen ap autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At ille reiecta sindone nudus profugit ab eis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þt wærpendre þare scete nacod heheom fram fleah. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he lefte the lynnyn clothing, and fleiy nakid awei fro hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he lefte his lynnen and fleed from them naked. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But he got away unclothed, without the linen cloth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 14, Verse 52 |
| Cebuano | apan siya nakabuhi nga hubo, ug nahibilin ang habol diha sa ilang mga kamot. |
